A Divided World United to Launch the James Webb Space Telescope

“I’ve always seen space as an area where we cooperate, through all the trying times,” said…

You Don’t Need a Spaceship to Grow ‘Weird Little’ Martian Radishes

Scientists on this planet have worked out a variety of techniques to simulate the conditions of…

NASA-Russia Alliance Is Shaken by Events on Planet Earth

The relationship between the nations’ space agencies is facing a series of difficult tests, including an…

James Webb Space Telescope Launches on Journey to See the Dawn of Starlight

Astronomers were jubilant as the spacecraft made it off the launchpad following decades of delays and…

Live Updates: Webb Telescope Prepares for Launch

In French Guiana, the James Webb Space Telescope is on the launchpad being prepared for its…

Webb Telescope Launch: Date, Time and Livestream

Astronomers have been waiting eagerly for the beginning of the powerful space observatory’s mission, and on…

How NASA's Webb Telescope Overcame Loose Screws, Budgets and Clamps

Getting the James Webb Space Telescope to the launchpad has been a difficult journey that has…

SpaceX Reports 132 Covid Cases at Headquarters in California

The infections occurred in Hawthorne, Calif., where the company manages space launches and builds rockets and…

Webb Telescope Approaches Launch, With an Eye Toward Cosmic Origins

The biggest space telescope in history aims to answer astronomy’s oldest question: How did we get…

NASA Mission Could Blast an Asteroid That Once Menaced Earth

The OSIRIS-REX spacecraft, which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu, would visit a second space rock,…